We are performing a security audit, what would that entail?
A: Testing against a published standard.
B: External auditors comes in.
C: Internal auditors looking for flaws.
D: Internal IT Security employees double checking their work.

The cybercrime prediction stands, and over the past year it has been corroborated by hundreds of major media outlets, universities and colleges, senior government officials, associations, industry experts, the largest technology and cybersecurity companies, and cybercrime fighters globally.

The damage cost projections are based on historical cybercrime figures including recent year-over-year growth, a dramatic increase in hostile nation state sponsored and organized crime gang hacking activities, and a cyber attack surface which will be an order of magnitude greater in 2021 than it is today.

Cybercrime costs include damage and destruction of data, stolen money, lost productivity, theft of intellectual property, theft of personal and financial data, embezzlement, fraud, post-attack disruption to the normal course of business, forensic investigation, restoration and deletion of hacked data and systems, and reputational harm.

A: IPS (Intrusion Prevention System): Similar to IDS, but they also take action to malicious traffic, what they do with the traffic is determined by configuration. Events trigger an action, drop/redirect traffic, often combined with the trigger monitoring/administrator warnings, emails or text messages.

Cybersecurity Workforce Shortage Projected at 1.8 Million by 2022

The results from the eighth Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS) have been released this week. The workforce gap is estimated to be growing, with the projected shortage reaching 1.8 million professionals by 2022. While the gap is not news, the fact that it is growing is of great concern to an already exhausted workforce. The question of how to fill the gap has been answered, and millennials are an integral part of the plan. “For years, we’ve known about the impending shortage of the information security workforce, as evidenced by our study year over year,” said David Shearer, CEO,…